"Watering" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this little incident set Mr. Muller thinking and praying about orphans. Could not something be done to meet the temporal and spiritual wants of this class of very poor children? Unconsciously to himself, God had set a seed in his soul, and was watching and watering it. The idea of a definite orphan work had taken root within him, and, like any other living germ, it was springing up and growing, he knew not how. As yet it was only in the blade, but in time there would come the ...
— George Muller of Bristol - His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God • Arthur T. Pierson
... a while, when we'd spun past the charming villas and attractive shops of Cannes (which looks so deceitfully sylvan, and is one of the gayest watering-places in the world) silence began ...
— The Motor Maid • Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson
... disregarding; but I, who am, after all, the most concerned, doubt whether such a dark utterance be a wholesome thing to hang round a young man's neck. The dreams of youth grow rank enough without such watering. The prediction was always in my mind, alluring and tantalising as a teasing girl who puts her pretty face near yours, safe that you dare not kiss it. What it said I mused on, what it said not I neglected. I dedicated my idle hours to it, and, not appeased, it invaded ...
— Simon Dale • Anthony Hope
... it as the first watering-place in the world, the Special Commissioner thought he had better see the place, ...
— The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent • S.M. Hussey
... spent on shore at the Academy, and then was again whisked off to sea, there to remain for substantially all the rest of the war. Although already prominent as a fashionable watering-place, Newport then was very far from its present development; but in winter it had a settled and pleasant, if small, society. At this time I met the widow of Captain Lawrence of the Chesapeake, who ...
— From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life • Captain A. T. Mahan
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